Tuesday 12 March 2013

Tag on!

Finally the sun has been shinning and we have been working hard for the last 4 days making the most of it! And with the good weather we got a chance to try tagging and succeeded. We are using Dtags originally developed by Mark Johnson and Peter Tyack at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to study the underwater behaviour of whales. The tag records the movements as well as the sounds of the whales and give us an amazing view into the underwater world that is beyond what we can see from the surface. Hopefully these data will give us great insights to how the whales behave underwater, so we are excited to start analysing it! But before that the good weather is staying for one more day so tomorrow we go for it again!

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